A New Area!

So.....I´m writing this email from a lan-house here in Goiania, in an area called Ipiranga..... it´s in the middle of flippn´ nowhere.

And *why?* do you ask?

Because I was transferred. I got a phone-call Tuesday morning as I was a-walking in the street with surprise transfers. Always fun. So yeah. here´s the spill: Elder Black is still back in Maracana with the new district leader Elder Heymore, and they baptized Lourdes together, ´*you´re welcome Elder Heymore* and I got sent here.... to be Zone Leader with Elder Erickson. Yup. I have my own zone now. I´ve pretty much followed Elder Erickson around my whole mission, from Annapolis, to Uberaba, and now we´re finally companions here in Goiania, I guess I must be doing something right. No pressure eh? Also, Elder Pattie became the new assistant... (one of my old companions) so that´s pretty nifty.

Anyways, our area is HUGE!! It takes in a bunch of Goiania, and two other cities, one of which is 100% catholic and has the 2nd biggest cathedral in Brasil. There's a coca-cola factory were gonna take a tour of one day, there´s a district called El Dorado... in the middle of nowhere, there´s a part that looks like the city from Edward Scissor Hands.. except everything is brown.

We have to take a bus to church, and 3 buses to the center. nuts. We walked yesterday for 2 hours from one part to our house, and it wasn´t even from the furthest part of the area. sheesh. Yeah, our area may be huge, but our house is TINY!!! we only have one hallway/kitchen, bedroom/study room, and on bathroom, soooo small. we pretty mcuh roll out of bed and we´re already at the desk ready to study. Not only that, but this city is SO FREAKING HOT! and when it´s not boiling, it´s pouring rain. For example, my first day here the streets had turned to rivers and we had to cross a couple to teach a few people, our legs were completely soaked, Elder Erickson nearly got swept away, and so on.

But that´s not the coolest part....the coolest part is this... later that night we were walking in a park with our umbrellas, it was stormy and rainy, with lots of lightning... until.. the next thing i know a bolt of lighting flies in front of my face and throws me to the ground, and strikes the umbrella of Elder Erickson, he said it shocked his arm and threw the umbrella from his hand, when I looked up I see the umbrella on the ground and Elder Erickson running away, and hearing the people in the bar nearby screaming/laughing/yelling *HOLY SMOKES!!* so... that was fun. we made a pretty quick escape after that.

I was kind of bummed to leave my area without baptizing Lourdes, but it´s good she got baptized anyways. And when I got here I found out that we have 5 baptisms scheduled for this weekend.... so I´m pretty happy, woooo!! And now I realize exactly how hard of an area I had in Maracana. Here the people just walk up to you in the street and ask you to visit them at home and teach them... and they actually say hi to you when you say hi to them. It´s a pretty refreshing break after so much time in Annapolis... I had no idea how good all these other missionaries had it. Lucky ducks, now I´m gonna get a piece of this action.

Well that´s about it that happened this week, not too much eh? The members here are AMAZING!! We have so many more lessons with members here that I would have ever dreamed about in Maracana. I´m pretty sure I´ll be very happy here.... even if I do lose all my money buying buss passes.... sheesh.

Well I love you all, I´m still working good... apparently :D haha

*FOR THE HORDE!!*
Elder Webber